Magnitude Matching

2001-01-05 Thread Ron Blue
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/02/science/02ERRO.html?pagewanted=1&1016/2001/01/ 02/science/02ERRO.html Linda Bartoshuk has advanced our understanding of the taste system by using sound as a standard for magnitude matching of taste stimuli. From this effort she discovered that old standards wer

Guidelines for counselling terminally ill patients?

2001-01-05 Thread Miguel Roig
During a casual conversation with my physician today, he lamented the absence of empirically based guidelines for counselling terminally ill patients. Having had some interest in issues of death and dying back in the 70s when I was an undergraduate (remember Kubler-Ross?) I thought that for sure t

how many?

2001-01-05 Thread Steven Specht
Greetings and happy new year TIPSters! Can someone provide me with the following statistics (preferably with a reference)? I need to know how many psychology majors graduate each year from American colleges and universities. I would also like the same information for business majors. In addition,

Re: intro text?

2001-01-05 Thread Chuck Huff
Another comment on intro texts. As companion piece to my great books approach (see http://www.stolaf.edu/people/huff/classes/Intro) I use Mynatt & Doherty's low cost paperback. Its virtue for me is that it has 42 chapters, each about 10-12 pages in length. This allows me to mix and match t

Re: intro text?

2001-01-05 Thread Jim Guinee
Greetings Regarding the recent discussion on "intro" texts, does anyone use the Lefton text anymore? Is it still being used? When I first starting teaching general psych (ca 1995), I used Lefton, and the students really liked it. Since then the department has gone through a few different au